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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Here are some more suggestions for women encouraging women, this time for those of you who have an official (or unofficial) role in your church facilitating relationships between older and younger women.

2. As the facilitator

Speak respectfully about older women in your church. Model this respect to others.

2 comments:

° spend quality time with younger women in casual settings. Make them a lunch (one on one) with your best tea china and talk about the Bible

° encourage younger women to speak up in Bible studies and share their testimonies, their ideas about Scripture, their insights and their questions

° first learn yourself how to properly study Scripture and then teach younger women how to study Scripture using grammar, history , cultural norms at the time, and context, context, context. It's important that they learn how to read without verses since the Bible was not written in 'verses'.

° be willing to take time with younger women to pray for and with them, as well to ask them for their prayers.

However, the suggestions for what to teach are not exhausted. IOW those are not the only things that older women should teach younger women.

And then there is the question of whether or not these older women are the older women enrolled in the churches ministries. It is possible that they are teaching elder women and part of the churches ministries.

Wife of 1 and mother of 4, I've always got my head in a book or in the clouds. We live in Melbourne, where my husband teaches university students about Jesus. I love writing and teaching women about Jesus, and I once wrote a PhD on the Puritan experience of enjoyment of God. Welcome to my blog, in which I try to be honest about my sins and struggles as I reflect on getting to know God in the midst of life.